The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-11-02
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY. Pa.

NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY, PA.
Bucks county creameries pay one
cent pound for milk.
-Husking corn is now the prevailing
epidemic among Bucks county farmers.
We hear that Mr.. Whiteley has
closed up his cotton mill in New Hope
for the Winter.
Taylor & Kachline, of Frenchtown,
N. j., have purchased sixty-acre farm
near Kintnersyille, Bucks county.
Joseph P. Eyre, of Upper Make
field, has been placed on the Prohibition
ticket for County Commissioner, in the
place of Joseph Roberts, of Solebury,
who declined to remain thereon.
AT an entertainment held in the A.
M. E. Church, New Hope, one evening
last week, Howard Bundy, of Lambert
vile, sang in excellent style several popu-
lar songs, which were encored on each
occasion.
This is the way they do it in Bucks
county. Thieves drove up to the farm
of Garrett Dudbridge, in Warwick town
ship, one night last week, loaded their
wagon with the animated contents of the
farmers pig.sty and as many chickens
as the vehicle would hold, and then re-
tired. In the morning tho farm-yard
looked as If it had been swept by
cyclone.
The Baptist Church at Bushington,
Bucks county, now called the Baptist
Church Of Buckingham Valley, will be
dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on
Thursday, Nov. Sd. Rev. G. T. Frame,
of Hilltown, will preach at 1890; Rev. ].
Saxton James, of Germantown, the dedi-
catory sermon at P. NJ, and Rev. N. G.
Fetter, of New Britain, at 7;SO P. NJ.
Tho public are generally invited. The
new church is large, neat and attractive,
and DIR. Geo. Fl. Larson, of Lambertville,
breaches there every Sabbath evening, to
good congregations.
The Bucks County Teachers Insti-
tute began at Doylestown on Monday of
this week, and will close on Friday ev-
ening. On Monday evening there was
an illustrated lecture by Prof. Richard
A. Proctor, on 1.-THE Sum- and on
Tuesday evening Col. J. P. Sanford leo
tured on "China and Japan" This
"wednesday evening lecture will be
delivered by Frank Beard, on the SUBJ
ject, "Stories in Pictures" and on
Thursday evening Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage will lecture on 1.-THE Bright Side
of Things" On Friday evening Mr..
Charles F. Underhill and Mrs. Chas. II.
Wevill will entertain the audience with
popular readings and music.
George H. Neff, who shot and killed
John Gunsaert, near Hilltown, Bucks
county, on September Z, was arrested at
Hazleton on Saturday last and was taken
to Doylestown on Sunday afternoon.
Neff made full confession to his cap
tors, and urged as defence that Gun
saert was criminally intimate with his
wife. Since the murder Neff has travel
ed from Hilltown to Terre Haute, Ind,
stopping at Pittsburg, Harrisburg and
Sunbury. He returned for tho purpose
of collecting 1913 due him from the Cen
trail Railroad Of New Jersey. A reward
of $500 was offered for his capture. He
was arrested by Conductor Arndt and
Baggage Master Phillips, of the Central
Railroad, and e. A. OberIander, private
secretary to Eckley B. Coke.
For some time past troupe of dra-
matte artists, or "showmeD, have oc-
cupied the old vacated school house at
the Eagle (Makeield post office, and
have held entertainments in the sur
rounding villages, and on Saturday ev-
ening last they ventured Us far as Lam
bertville, where they were greeted with
a full house, although the perform
ance failed to give satisfaction aud the
performers were marched to New Hope
under the protection of two policemen.
The Newtown Enterprise says Their
bill designates them as the Snyder, Page
& Co. Minstrel, Comedy and Museum
Company, the greatest aggregation of
the world, having the most success
full Rodey Lady. Electrical and Moss
Head Ladies, and Acrobats.' It was
the manager Of the company that was
arrested on Thursday evening of last
week and brought before Magistrate
jerks on the charge of cruelty to ami
mails, preferred by Thomas Crotty.
They borrowed poor, broken-down,
over-driven Texas pony Of Crotty to take
four OF them to Frankford and back, the
horse giving out ON the road. The
Magistrate heard the evidence and look
ed at the horse, and concluded that the
cruelty came in in loaning the horse
to the party. Snyder was discharged,
but his arrest broke up the "show for
Thursday evening at Yardley, but it was
given few evenings afterward.
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